Asian Hornbeam
Carpinus tschonoskii · Betulaceae · 개서어나무
Look
- Leaves
- Elliptic to egg-elliptic and pointed, 4 to 8 cm long and 3.5 to 4.5 cm wide, with 12 to 15 pairs of lateral veins (usually 13 or more) and compound hairs on the veins on both sides. The leaf stalk is 4 to 12 mm and hairy.
- Flowers
- Flowers open in April to May; the female catkin is 6 to 7 cm long, and the bracts are lanceolate to egg-shaped with teeth on one side only.
- Fruit
- A broadly egg-shaped nutlet 4 to 4.5 mm long with fine hairs at the tip, maturing in September to October.
- Bark
- Gray and lumpy but does not crack. One-year-old twigs are hairy with scattered white lenticels.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native (Korean Peninsula)
- Native to
- In Korea it grows south of Gangwon-do and in Jeollanam-do, Jeollabuk-do and Gyeongsangnam-do; abroad it is found in China and Japan.
- Ecology
- Grows well even in dry, poor sites and coastal areas and is strongly cold-hardy, but is weak in pollution resistance.